Add Megastructures

[woeful willow]

Add procedurally generated space structures for some epic end-game content to 'wow' in awe to. Megastructures like dyson spheres, ring worlds, planetary orbital rings etc.

Even unfinished megastructures would look epic, like a half completed dyson sphere. Perhaps there could be missions to help complete it.

On a smaller scale, orbital rings would probably fit the size scale in the game better for intractable structures.

They could scale up in size and strength too dependant on the difficulty of the system you travel to.

They would add so much lore to the existing factions, and could have different designs and purposes based on each faction.

Even if the mega structures are only for visuals, it would make the galaxy feel more alive.

[supple geyser]

partially-complete dyson spheres blocking some of the sun's ouch zone would be cool

[thorn isle]

dyson swarm with collidable reflector plates that remove the suns danger zone if uninteracted with

[fickle sparrow]

actual deathstars using a 4096ion core 💀

[thorn isle]

hmm

I feel the best way this could viably be added is if it was given to planets and made its own doodad as well , so things like Ringworlds would be a placeable doodad. Worlds with massive hyperloop rings around it (much like the above images) could be a thing as well , or maybe even a massive solar array as a whole megastructure , a planet being MINED apart by a megastructure like the solar array , and maybe even dyson swarms or spheres if needed

The best option for a star? Ring structures aka dyson spheres but ring , or a Dyson swarm which has thin reflector plates either as a background object that stays within the danger zone of the sun , or as a collidable and spawnable component of a dyson swarm.

Maybe megastructures could be placeable objects with their own category , said category being reliant on planets to function (with the exclusion of a ringworld)

Some good examples like those above could be stations as background objects which are considerably larger than the regular ones we have

Perhaps they could be dozens of spherical structures much like the classic Beast in an area near the sun

Heck , pirate bases could be a lot cooler with one of these as their central bases of operations , maybe they could be destroyable and bring lots of fame , but also be very rare to find in general due to them being asteroid bases

[supple geyser]

in general pirate bases and ships built around asteroids would be cool

stellaris has a good few of those

[fast geyser]

best thing ab this suggestion is it requires walt to do very little work - he just needs to ask a skilled builder to make the structures

I am especially interested in a ring structure around the sun

also in a sense the game already has megastructures, they're the warp relays - there just arent any other things aside from them.

[pure path]

stellaris ones are gorgeous

[woeful willow]

Agreed, played a game of stellaris recently and wondered why not have megastructures added to cosmoteer?

[woeful willow]

Agreed, would be awesome to see the community design different faction mega structures for the game

Like the Cabal of Sol Faction could be strongly against dyson spheres since they essentially worship the sun from the sol system

[woeful willow]

Cool concepts indeed

[thorn isle]

cabal of sol begins active campaign to destroy dyson spheres

they think they "steal" the "life" they create and harbor

so they actively try to destroy them and kill anyone who has one

monolith would probably have several

[woeful willow]

Indeed, a lot of potential for faction based opinions on different mega structures

[obtuse radish]

finally a place to dump ur 9999999999 resources

[left gulch]

I have a quite similar idea. I'll make sure to link yours with it once I bother to write it down.